Mode of protectinc notes



UNTTED STATES PATENT. oEEIoE.

EBENEZER WATSON, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.V

MODE OE PEOTEOTING NOTES, CHECKS, sw., EEOM ALTERATION.

Specification of Letters Patent No. S71, dated August 3, 1838.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, EBENEZER W'ATsoN, of the city of Albany, in the county ofjAlban)7 and State of New York, have invented a new Inode of protection against the alteration of bank-notes, bills of credit, circulating notes, certificates of stock, and other instruments of writing by any change of the sum thereof; and I do declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of Iny invention consists in eugraving, printing or any way expressing the sum in large letters, words or figures on the face of the note, &o., and so disposing the words or other matter of'thebody `oi the note, Sto., as-therewitli to lill up the spaces between such large letters, words or figures, and between the parts thereof, but A not to cover such letters wordsor figures or the parts thereof,either in whole or in part. To enable others skilled in the art to make and use iny invention, I refer to the 

